<?php
   abstract class fct_utils{
		public function accent($string) {
		    $string    = htmlentities(strtolower($string));
		    $string    = preg_replace("/&(.)(acute|cedil|circ|ring|tilde|uml);/", "$1", $string);
		    $string    = preg_replace("/([^a-z0-9]+)/", "", html_entity_decode($string));
		    $string    = trim($string, "");
		    return $string;
		} 
	}

?>